34 results filtered with: Pneumatics

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Pneumatics: page to a partwork on science, with pictures of scientific equipment. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1804.
Date: 1 November 1804Reference: 47590i- Books
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An attempt for the explication of the phaenomena observable in an experiment published by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq : in the XXXV. experiment of his epistolical discourse touching the aire. / In confirmation of a former conjecture made by R.H.
Robert HookeDate: 1661- Books
Ktesibios, Philon and Heron : a study in ancient pneumatics / [A.G. Drachmann].
Aage Gerhardt DrachmannDate: 1948- Books
The pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria : from the original Greek / Tr. and edited by Bennet Woodcroft.
Hero of AlexandriaDate: 1851- Books
Heronis Alexandrini Spiritalium liber / a Federico Commandino ex graeco, nuper in latinum conuersus.
Hero, of Alexandria. PneumaticaDate: 1583
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Inventions: a rat-trap (top) a bellows (centre) and an electrical capacitor [?] (below). Engraving.
Reference: 47536i- Pictures
An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
Joseph Wright of DerbyDate: 1769Reference: 575780i
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Pneumatics: a large kind of air pump. Engraving after B. Martin.
Benjamin MartinReference: 47581i- Pictures
Pneumatics: six experiments to do with oxygen, combustion, respiration, etc. Engraving.
Reference: 47575i